The Influence of Dostoevsky on Camus

Student: Zubchenko Nuriya

Educational Programme: Philosophy (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2016

During this study, the philosophical conceptions of a Russian philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky and a French philosopher Albert Camus has been viewed. The work is mostly concentrated on the relation between their ideas and purposes its aim to prove the fact, that Dostoevsky influenced a lot on the evolution of the «Weltanschauung» of Camus. To show the influence, the definite aspects of the philosophers’ conceptions have been analysed and compared: the problems of absurdity, suicide, religion, nihilism, revolt. In order to achieve the goal, the works of different genres of the two philosophers have been deeply analysed and the ideas put into them have been compared. Since a lot of studies on this problem have already been done, the achieved results have been analysed as well. As a result, the main thesis of the work has been proved.

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